We are all standing in a row on the start line, hands on accelerator. On our vehicles. The moment signal turns orange, the accelerator goes to maximum and all vehicles start zooming ahead. The only thing we see is the road ahead like Arjuna seeing only fish's eye.
Well, this is not the scene from a bike racing. It is everyday race which happens on Bangalore roads. But unlike actual races we don't try to hurt our opponents. Actual racers don't do that either, you say? OK, I mistook the computer racing game for real.
But effort to hurt anyway is very much present here too. In the form of pot holes. We are speeding as we want to make up for the delay caused at the signal. Then "Dhad". We land in a pothole which is as big as a well. (may be it is brahut bengaluru mahanagara palike's way of rain water harvesting!). If we don't fall down, we are lucky. If we see this pothole ahead and try to escape from it and suddenly turn, we are sure to collide with the person coming behind.
Ok, thus we travel hardly for 5 minutes and here comes the next signal. But this time we are behind a sea of vehicles. So we try squeeze from the left of four wheelers , from the right , from wherever possible and go and stand on the start line. We have not yet tried going through these vehicles. But don't you think we can go on(top of) these vehicles, as shown in movies. This method will even let us cross the signal without being caught by policeman. Great!!!
We dislike four wheelers, our hatred growing proportionally with their size. (And the feeling is mutual) Cars are bad enough, they go so slowly blocking our way. BMTC buses are the worst. They go very slow but they know it is their right to go on right. Right side of the road. We humble two wheelers either must go behind them in a snail pace or overtake them from the left. Then suddenly these buses stop, bringing the traffic to halt. Then they come back to their right full place on the road completely unseeing the vehicles on the path. So we not only have escape from potholes, we have to escape from buses too.
How I wish we could go back to the age, where we walk all the way to office through calm and quite woods.
Well, this is not the scene from a bike racing. It is everyday race which happens on Bangalore roads. But unlike actual races we don't try to hurt our opponents. Actual racers don't do that either, you say? OK, I mistook the computer racing game for real.
But effort to hurt anyway is very much present here too. In the form of pot holes. We are speeding as we want to make up for the delay caused at the signal. Then "Dhad". We land in a pothole which is as big as a well. (may be it is brahut bengaluru mahanagara palike's way of rain water harvesting!). If we don't fall down, we are lucky. If we see this pothole ahead and try to escape from it and suddenly turn, we are sure to collide with the person coming behind.
Ok, thus we travel hardly for 5 minutes and here comes the next signal. But this time we are behind a sea of vehicles. So we try squeeze from the left of four wheelers , from the right , from wherever possible and go and stand on the start line. We have not yet tried going through these vehicles. But don't you think we can go on(top of) these vehicles, as shown in movies. This method will even let us cross the signal without being caught by policeman. Great!!!
We dislike four wheelers, our hatred growing proportionally with their size. (And the feeling is mutual) Cars are bad enough, they go so slowly blocking our way. BMTC buses are the worst. They go very slow but they know it is their right to go on right. Right side of the road. We humble two wheelers either must go behind them in a snail pace or overtake them from the left. Then suddenly these buses stop, bringing the traffic to halt. Then they come back to their right full place on the road completely unseeing the vehicles on the path. So we not only have escape from potholes, we have to escape from buses too.
How I wish we could go back to the age, where we walk all the way to office through calm and quite woods.
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